Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Passing on unwanted groups Message-ID: <1990Aug21.161506.21784@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1990Aug15.164651.26664@zoo.toronto.edu> <49281@olivea.atc.olivetti.com> <1990Aug16.163107.1166@zoo.toronto.edu> <49289@olivea.atc.olivetti.com> <1990Aug17.155959.1331@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Aug20.011536.3323@zoo.toronto.edu> <4.B5C74@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 90 16:15:06 GMT In article <4.B5C74@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >> And we made a decision some >> time ago that we are not especially interested in defending ourselves against >> sysadmins who don't know what they're doing. (We rate ignorance of basic >> notions of file ownership and permissions as such.) > >And this is why people are reluctant to move to C news from B news. Somehow I doubt this; B News didn't exactly hold your hand every step of the way either. >> Apart from being a nuisance, this assumes that there is a portable syntax >> for chown, which there isn't. > >Huh? Where is there a UNIX system where "chown $NEWSMASTER $NEWSCTL/active" >won't work? ... Systems where chown is in some strange place, like /etc, that isn't in the default search path. -- Committees do harm merely by existing. | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology -Freeman Dyson | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry